'Dalits Attacked' - 22 News Result(s)

After Dalit teen Digant Maheria told the police that he had been slashed with a blade by two men on a motorcycle while returning from school in his village in Gujarat earlier this week, hundreds of Dalit men from neighbouring villages changed their WhatsApp display pictures in protest to photos of a large moustache with Mr Dalit written under it. I...

Digant Maheria, 17, was walking back from school in Gujarat's Limbodara village on Tuesday when two unidentified men drove up on a motorcycle and slashed his back with a blade. Digant is a cousin of Piyush Parmar, one of two Dalit men who were beaten up in the village last week for wearing a moustache. The attackers were allegedly Rajput men who sa...

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today attacked the Narendra Modi government at the centre, saying it is spreading hatred and communalism in Uttar Pradesh and has failed to keep its promises for the state.

The Shiv Sena, whose members have often vandalised the property of opponents, turned into a target today with an office in Mumbai of its mouthpiece, Saamana, attacked with stones over a cartoon that mocked recent protests by the powerful Maratha caste, which constitutes about 30% of Maharashtra's population.

Around eight Dalits were severely injured when a mob allegedly attacked them and 12 of their community members at Samter village near Una, while they were returning home after attending a protest rally in Una town of Gir Somnath district this evening.

Amid a row on cow vigilante groups, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today accused the BJP of creating differences in society in the name of cow protection and deviating from the discussion on development.

The protests by Dalits over the July 11 flogging of Dalit boys in Gujarat's Una by self-styled cow protection vigilantes continued for the second week on Monday, but unlike several places where youth tried to commit suicide to express their anger, they found a unique way of protest in India's milk capital, Anand.

A Delhi court today directed the police to file an action taken report on a criminal complaint filed against Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh for his alleged "dog" remark after the Faridabad incident in which two children of a Dalit family were burnt alive.

As the Opposition parties attacked Union Minister General VK Singh for his 'dog' remark on the Dalit killings in Faridabad, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today came to his defence saying the matter should not be blown out of proportion as General Singh had already condemned the incident.

'Dalits Attacked' - 22 News Result(s)

After Dalit teen Digant Maheria told the police that he had been slashed with a blade by two men on a motorcycle while returning from school in his village in Gujarat earlier this week, hundreds of Dalit men from neighbouring villages changed their WhatsApp display pictures in protest to photos of a large moustache with Mr Dalit written under it. I...

Digant Maheria, 17, was walking back from school in Gujarat's Limbodara village on Tuesday when two unidentified men drove up on a motorcycle and slashed his back with a blade. Digant is a cousin of Piyush Parmar, one of two Dalit men who were beaten up in the village last week for wearing a moustache. The attackers were allegedly Rajput men who sa...

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today attacked the Narendra Modi government at the centre, saying it is spreading hatred and communalism in Uttar Pradesh and has failed to keep its promises for the state.

The Shiv Sena, whose members have often vandalised the property of opponents, turned into a target today with an office in Mumbai of its mouthpiece, Saamana, attacked with stones over a cartoon that mocked recent protests by the powerful Maratha caste, which constitutes about 30% of Maharashtra's population.

Around eight Dalits were severely injured when a mob allegedly attacked them and 12 of their community members at Samter village near Una, while they were returning home after attending a protest rally in Una town of Gir Somnath district this evening.

Amid a row on cow vigilante groups, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today accused the BJP of creating differences in society in the name of cow protection and deviating from the discussion on development.

The protests by Dalits over the July 11 flogging of Dalit boys in Gujarat's Una by self-styled cow protection vigilantes continued for the second week on Monday, but unlike several places where youth tried to commit suicide to express their anger, they found a unique way of protest in India's milk capital, Anand.

A Delhi court today directed the police to file an action taken report on a criminal complaint filed against Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh for his alleged "dog" remark after the Faridabad incident in which two children of a Dalit family were burnt alive.

As the Opposition parties attacked Union Minister General VK Singh for his 'dog' remark on the Dalit killings in Faridabad, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today came to his defence saying the matter should not be blown out of proportion as General Singh had already condemned the incident.

Two young children from a Dalit family were burnt alive and their parents suffered injuries after their home in a Haryana village about 40 km from the national capital, was allegedly set afire deep in the night on Monday.

50 year old Babu Lal Meghwal been on a protest for the past 41 days demanding justice. Almost two months ago on February 18 his hut was set on fire, even as he, his 80 year old mother and 7 year old son slept inside. Mr Meghwal, who is a Dalit, will mark the 42nd day of his protest on Dr Ambedkar's birth anniversary.

Reaching out to the Dalits with the assembly and Lok Sabha elections approaching, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday urged for more representation for the community in the Congress party and attacked BSP leader Mayawati, saying she was not allowing other Dalit leaders to rise.

On Independence Day, as a group of Dalits gathered in a village in Bihar's Rohtas district to hoist the national flag outside a temple of their icon, Sant Ravidas, violence broke out. A group of upper caste Rajputs from the same village, Baddi, enraged that they were not allowed to fly the flag at the same location, attacked them.

A Dalit man was beaten to death and at least 12 others, including old women and children, severely injured as upper castes in the village allegedly attacked them for trying to hoist the national flag outside a temple belonging to the community.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today hit out at the opposition parties for targeting her government and the party and said such attacks would only work in her advantage in the Assembly elections due next year.